Polynesia: Or, An Historical Account of the Principal Islands in the South Sea, Including New ZealandOliver & Boyd, 1845 - 440 sider |
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Side 12
... Island- ers - Services of Captain Sandilands - War in Raiatea- Evils of such Commotions ,. CHAPTER V. ..Page 131 MARQUESAS , LOW ARCHIPELAGO , AND AUSTRAL ISLANDS . Marquesas discovered by Mendana - Description - Climate- Inhabitants ...
... Island- ers - Services of Captain Sandilands - War in Raiatea- Evils of such Commotions ,. CHAPTER V. ..Page 131 MARQUESAS , LOW ARCHIPELAGO , AND AUSTRAL ISLANDS . Marquesas discovered by Mendana - Description - Climate- Inhabitants ...
Side 14
... Islands discovered by Bougainville - Visited by La Perouse , and by Kotzebue- Incidents mentioned by the latter - These Islands extremely important - Exertions of the Chief Fauea - Progress of the Missionaries - Conduct of Malietoa ...
... Islands discovered by Bougainville - Visited by La Perouse , and by Kotzebue- Incidents mentioned by the latter - These Islands extremely important - Exertions of the Chief Fauea - Progress of the Missionaries - Conduct of Malietoa ...
Side 23
... Islands . Even among the Carolines , where the Poly- nesian series turns due east , the particular masses lie north and south . Another great chain makes its appear- ance in Luçon , the largest of the Philippines , which passes through ...
... Islands . Even among the Carolines , where the Poly- nesian series turns due east , the particular masses lie north and south . Another great chain makes its appear- ance in Luçon , the largest of the Philippines , which passes through ...
Side 27
... islands which stud the intertropical latitudes of the Great South Sea . * But the High Islands , such as appear decidedly to have had an igneous origin , are more important , viewed as the habitations of man , than the coral ridges just ...
... islands which stud the intertropical latitudes of the Great South Sea . * But the High Islands , such as appear decidedly to have had an igneous origin , are more important , viewed as the habitations of man , than the coral ridges just ...
Side 28
... islands of Plutonic origin into two orders , the Mountainous and the Hilly . In the former , the height of the land varies from 2000 to 15,000 feet above the level of the sea , the towering summits gradually rising from their base till ...
... islands of Plutonic origin into two orders , the Mountainous and the Hilly . In the former , the height of the land varies from 2000 to 15,000 feet above the level of the sea , the towering summits gradually rising from their base till ...
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